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A Model of School Effects
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College-Going Behaviors: Are there School Effects for the Rural Student?
This study considered the school effects of college going behavior for rural students. Of interest were the effects of location and college-going culture within a given school. The research questions asked, included: 1. What are the effects of rural school location and college-going culture on …
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Outdoor challenge programs in middle school : effects on self-concept and achievement
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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School Effects on Student Resiliency at York High School: A Case Study
A case study on the school effects which fostered resiliency among a specified group of students at York High School is presented. The purpose of the study was to examine the integration of personal factors with school factors in a qualitative study of one group of students who failed one semester …
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Academically gifted adolescents transferring to an independent gifted school: Effects on academic identity
… explore experiences transferring from multilevel schools to an independent gifted school from low- and high-income school districts in this phenomenological study. Semi-structured interviews inform this study demonstrating how changes in school context shape academic identity. Adolescent students …
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Using hierarchical linear modeling to measure school effects on the Colorado Student Assessment Program
… Program (CSAP). This study was grounded in school effectiveness research, as the primary objective was to isolate the impact of school practice by controlling for student characteristics and school context. Furthermore, this investigation was designed to build on contemporary studies that …
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Individual Factors and School Effects on Student Disciplinary Resiliency in DuPage High School District 88: A Case Study
A case study on the school effects which promoted behavioral transformations among a specific group of students at Addison Trail High School is presented. The purpose of the study was to examine the integration of personal factors with school factors in a qualitative study of one group of students …
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Estimates of school productivity and implications for policy
School productivity was not perfectly estimated because of the sampling error and the measurement error. The traditional Ordinary Least Square (OLS) leaves the estimation of school productivity questionable. Moreover, Hierarchical Linear Model (HLM) encounters a large proportion of the variance …
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An Examination of Black Male Success in High School Mathematics
… student perception of math ability, teacher and school effects, as well as socioeconomic status on high school math scores for this unique population.</p> <p>Bourdieu’s cultural and social capital, Coleman’s cultural capital and social action, Martin’s equity-based math education, and Gutierrez’s …
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The Effects of Concerted Cultivation on Academic Achievement
… such important factors as gender, race and school effects. She says that social class impacts these child-rearing practices and that middle-class families use a specific type of practice called concerted cultivation. Concerted cultivation involves parents organizing children's daily …
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Leave No Crime Behind: Exposure to Violence and School Performance in New York City
… has increasingly focused on holding teachers and schools accountable for student performance. Yet popular and academic writers have long connected exposure to neighborhood violence to poor student performance. Newly available datasets, statistical methods and computer technology allow for greater …
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The Effects of Curriculum and Social Capital on Post-Secondary Educational Attainment Among Public High School Students: A Multi-Level Analysis
… teacher social capital factors on public high school students' likelihood of college attendance. Using Hierarchical Generalized Linear Modeling with the ELS (2002), student and school level factors were examined on the likelihood of postsecondary educational attainment among public high school …
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The Influence of Relational Knowledge on the Transition out of Secondary School: An Investigation of How Social Capital and Social Goals Affect Educational Pathways
… in which students engage and for which schools provide services and resources remain terra incognita. To address this gap in research, this study investigated the availability and identification of useful knowledge held in both family and school relationships that supports procedural …
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Essays in the Economics of Education and Health
… program have found lower student test scores at schools randomly chosen to receive performance pay than at control schools not eligible for bonuses. Several studies have suggested lower intrinsic motivation among teachers at treatment schools as a possible mechanism driving these surprising …
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The Effects of Teacher-Student Racial and Ethnic Congruence on Student Math Learning
… recently determined that assigning students to schools and classrooms based on racial identity is unconstitutional. However, it also left the door open for further and different rulings. If researchers are able to show that lack of consideration of race has deleterious effects on federally …
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An Item Response Theory Approach to the Maintenance of Standards in Public Examinations in England
… were not stable across samples due to context effects, school effects and maturity effects. These results were partly due to the scale of study, which, though small, still produced reasonably sensible outcomes. It is suggested that more care paid to the context of linking items, their …